Blue Yarn and Wooly Batts

Another dye experiment in acid dye blues for Libby. She is keeping this one.

We played around with the drum carder that I rescued from my mom who hasn’t used it in years. We were pretty impressed how the random end bits of roving Libby had became nice fluffy batts. Can’t wait for Libby to try [...]

Dyeing for Color

1. One Love A Day: Day #40 – Fluids, 2. Hand-Dyed Sock Yarn, 3. dye run – spring 2006, 4. hey psst!, 5. Hand Dyed Fiber Buns, 6. Dyeing Success – Macro, 7. Selling colours, Pashupatinath, 8. Dye-ing leather, 9. Yellow Dye, 10. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts., 11. Attack, 12. [...]

A Rainy Day

Things are still wet and gray, the voices on the news say it is going to stay that way all week. We need the water but I just want to ride my bike in some sunshine. So to focus on something else here are a few shinny things.

This is some yummy Whenslydale dyed with madder [...]

Orange Sherbet with Extra Fiber

Last month on a rainy day I stopped in at A Verb For Keeping Warm on my way home. It was a gray day and I wanted something to spin and nothing I had at home was calling my name. I have to say, Kristine’s store is so cozy I could have stayed there all [...]

Yummy Yak and Another Noro Scarf

So do you remember that yummy looking yak and merino roving that I got at Color from  A Verb for Keeping Warm?  Well I have been busy on the wheel lately and it is now a lovely fingering/lace weight yarn.
I also finally got the last bit of the Plumber plyed and am now trying to [...]

Shearing a Jacob Ram

Shearing Day at Meridian Jacobs Farm

This past Sunday was a big day at Meridian Jacobs Farm, it was shearing day for the 50 or so Jacob sheep raised by Robin and Dan Lynde. I drove out with my knitting friend Marissa and her family.  The farm is out near Vacaville and it is a lovely drive through the hills and [...]

Color: A Fiber Festival

About two weeks ago I went to a little fiber festival in Berkeley. The festival is aptly named Color and this was the second one this year. At this point it is a very small festival, about 5 vendors, about 6 small classes and an area for folks to bring their wheels, spindles, knitting, etc. [...]

Miscellany

Well, I had thought I would be able to post about my progress on a few projects but the photos for those did not seem to make it onto the jump drive so instead I have photos of some old projects that I have been meaning to gets pictures taken of. Enjoy.

Handspun Updates

Here is a bit of handspun to drool over. I have been without internet at home so posting regularly is rather hard, hopefully we will get something figured out soon.